Hudson earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill. He earned his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Ill., and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Colorado, Denver, Colo.

Hudson’s cardiovascular fellowship was also completed at the University of Colorado while his interventional cardiology fellowship was completed at Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, Calif.